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  • Pyongyang, North Korea
    Jan, 1982
    Kim Jong-un

    Birth

    Pyongyang, North Korea
    Jan, 1982

    North Korean authorities and state-run media have stated that Kim's birthdate was 8 January 1982. but South Korean intelligence officials believe the actual date is a year later. It is thought that Kim's official birth year was changed for symbolic reasons; 1982 marks 70 years after the birth of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, and 40 years after the official birth of his father Kim Jong-il. POV: The US Treasury Department lists Kim Jong-un's official birthdate as 8 January 1984. Former basketball star Dennis Rodman confirmed that 8 January was Kim Jong-un's birthdate after meeting in September 2013 in North Korea, and that Kim was 30 years of age at the time.




  • London, England, U.K.
    Saturday Jan 9, 1982
    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

    Birth

    London, England, U.K.
    Saturday Jan 9, 1982

    On 9 January 1982, Kate Elizabeth Middleton, now named Catherine, was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading into an upper-middle-class family. She is the eldest of three children, she has a younger sister, Pippa, and a younger brother, James, born to Michael Middleton and his wife Carole. Her father's family has ties to British aristocracy and benefited financially from trust funds, which they established over 100 years ago.




  • Creys-Malville, France
    Monday Jan 18, 1982
    Carlos the Jackal

    Attack on the Superphénix French nuclear power station

    Creys-Malville, France
    Monday Jan 18, 1982

    With conditional support from the Iraqi regime and after the death of Haddad, Carlos offered the services of his group to the PFLP and other groups. His group's first attack may have been a failed rocket attack on the Superphénix French nuclear power station on 18 January 1982.




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